You Are Going to Get Priced Out of the Best AI Coding Tools

Very, very slight improvements for much, much more money. The highest end subscriptions already don't make economic sense. Unless you are scamming ppl you are losing money using fake AI.

I am glad china is subsidizing their models and releasing them open weight to pressure the US model providers. The value proposition at the moment is mostly tooling and that's easy to reverse engineer. That's probably why we see the switch to coding agent platforms. Not sure if it will work out in the end if we see base model stagnation like we have seen in the last releases.

This is great, and it is similar to all tools. There are drills that cost over $1M, and they are the right tool for the job, that doesn’t mean every home owner needs these drills.

AI will follow similar hierarchies.

Is there a good summary of

a) price trends for each AI platform and b) price comparison between platforms ?

I have not used any of the platforms truly professionally, but I have not as of yet had to pay anything to claude or qwen3. I am paying $20 per month to Google for some combination of AI tools, but that's fairly affordable.

That + OpenAI planning to lose money until at least 2030 might put into question the perspective of whether these LLMs business can sustain themselves in the long-run; increasing prices is one thing, but you will lose lots of customers together with this change.

Good thing I spent so many years practicing the skill before the crutch was invented. It's clear that younger generations will become dependent and then have no choice but to pay whatever the market will eventually charge.